#MAGAts do this shit all the time. They invent stories that reflect a worldview they wish existed, then promote it as fact, often perpetuating these #LIES though a complicit and unscrupulous #rightWingMedia. MAGAts don't have a sense of humor, and they fundamentally do not understand #comedy, or satire. Their idea of a joke is to invent meanspirited lies about people they don't like, and then say, "Har dee har har, just kidding!" when they get called out.
Jesse #Barrett is a trial lawyer & managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, DC, office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.
charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
The lawyers are arguing about the #AccessHollywood tape & how it can be introduced.
It’s hard to imagine anyone who isn’t familiar with what #Trump says on the tape, even the jurors.
Justice #Merchan, who has allowed evidence related to the tape, will not let it be heard or watched in court, because he thinks it would be too #prejudicial.
Merchan is displaying his judicial fairness here, despite what Trump, #RightWingMedia & #MAGA claim.
#JesseWatters is truly one of the dumbest people in media. #FoxNews is literally the only place he could hold down a media job. Watters got his big break after accosting Asian New Yorkers on the street, and humiliating them with astonishingly racist mockery and insults. He would have been fired from any other job, but Fox recognized a unique POS who would resonate with their audience. I wanna spit in his face so bad...
On Mon, Aimenn Penny, 20, was sentenced to 18 yrs in #prison after pleading #guilty to 2 felonies: committing a #church#arson#HateCrime & using fire & #explosives to commit a #felony. Penny’s attempted #firebombing of the Community Church of Chesterland came as some #RightWing#media outlets intensified their rhetoric against #drag shows & #conservative lawmakers made banning them or limiting children’s exposure to them an increasingly high priority.…
“We hope this significant sentence sends a clear & resounding message that this type of hate-fueled attack against a #church will not be tolerated in our country,” Asst AG #KristenClarke of the #DOJ’s #CivilRights Division said in a news release. “This defendant tried to burn down a church simply because its members created space for & provided support to the #LGBTQ+ community.”
How the #GOP’s rewriting of #Jan6 pavedthe way for #Trump’s comeback
Pressure from family of & advocates for accused rioters (#insurgents) was amplified by online #influencers & #RightWingMedia figures, leading lawmakers to minimize, excuse & deny the #violence & rehabilitate Trump
Secy of State #Blinken returned to #Israel Mon. Blinken met Israeli PM #Netanyahu & Pres #Herzog in #Jerusalem; he heads to #TelAviv next to meet w/ the #war cabinet ahead of their military offensive against #Hamas. Blinken’s 2nd visit in just a few days, comes after Pres #Biden warned that a new Israeli #occupation of #Gaza would be a “big mistake” — his firmest effort to signal restraint to Israel as the #HumanitarianCrisis in Gaza reaches critical.
The wife said #Czuba wanted #HanaanShahin & her son to move out of the residence, Fitzgerald said. Czuba believed he & his wife were in danger & believed #Shahin was going to call her #Palestinian friends & family to harm them, he said.
Czuba apparently made a $1k cash withdrawal “in case the US grid went down,” Fitzgerald said.
Czuba was also worried about the “National Day of Jihad” that was supposed to occur on Fri.
#Shahin also told police she had been texting Czuba's wife about her husband's "hatred for Muslims." Last Wed, Oct 11, Czuba said he wanted Shahin & her son to "move out of the home," Mary #Czuba told investigators. Shahin told deputies that on that same day, Czuba "confronted her about what was going on in the #MiddleEast."
#Czuba was represented by a public defender who told the #court the suspect was a veteran who served in the US military from 1969 to 1973 & has ongoing medical issues, incl’g a prior diagnosis of prostate cancer, that would make it "potentially difficult to accommodate him in jail."
The judge disagreed, saying Czuba remains a #threat to Shahin & "the community in general" & sent him back to #jail. He is due back in court on Oct 30.
#Republicans averted the self-inflicted wound of a #GovernmentShutdown this weekend. The main casualty of the process was #aid for #Ukraine, but foreign aid was always a fig leaf—for both #GOP#dysfunction & the determination of a small group of Republicans to help #Russia.
The drumbeat of #propaganda from these members & their “amen” chorus in the #RightWingMedia is having an effect: An Economist/YouGov poll released last week found a slight uptick among all voters for reducing military #aid to #Ukraine, but for the first time found that a majority of #Republicans now support such reductions. Fortunately, #Americans overall—even many voters in the #GOP—are still holding firm in their support for Ukraine in its fight against #Russian#imperialism.
White supremacy, racially motivated hate crimes, and the murders of racial, religious and sexual minorities don’t happen in a vacuum. They are encouraged, given life, and ultimately driven by leaders who knowingly deploy the terror to advance and increase their own power.
I still don't know how anyone in 2016 thought deadbeat TFG would not be corrupt and Girl Scout Hillary Clinton would, but here's a Ruth Marcus column in case anyone complains to you about him getting indicted absconding with classified documents while she's living her best life. Personally, I hadn't heard anything of the sort because I don't mingle with Republicans, but I know not everyone is that lucky.
Hillary when Sec of State was found (investigated) to have not broken the law of retention of government documents and emails, letters, etc. Because the new law for Sec of State office holders was CHANGED after she left the position😘
She had the right to personality select what was private to delete as Sec of State